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Comment by clutter55561

1 day ago

HN is pretty polarised about this - they are either “the good guys” or “doing it for positive marketing”.

I’m on the camp “the world is so fucked up, take the good when you can find it”.

Beggars can’t be choosers when it comes to taking a stand against dictatorships.

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abustamam  1 day ago

Yeah, the alternative is be OK with their product being used for surveillance.

Not sure why it's controversial that they said no, regardless of the reasoning. Yeah there's a lot of marketing speak and things to cover their asses. Let's call them out on that later. Right now let's applaud them for doing the right thing.

FWIW I do not think they are the "good guys" (if I had a dollar for every company that had a policy of not being evil...). But they are certainly not siding with the bad guys here.

  • louisbourgault  17 hours ago

    > Let's call them out on that later. Right now let's applaud them for doing the right thing.

    Yes, yes, yes. When I first read the stuff about this yesterday, my immediate thought was "wait, these are the only two things they have a problem with?"

    But they made a stand, and that still matters. We shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. At least it's not Grok.

    • pklausler  14 hours ago

      If one really wants to take a stand against this crazy administration, they shouldn’t start it by referring to Hegseth with his assumed title.

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scrubs  21 hours ago

It's gotta be thus.

For if you don't the next step is cynicism maximally operationlized: what you're not doing game/political BS to get ahead? What are you? A chump? An idiot?

That kind of stuff spreads like wild fire making corporate America ... something else to put it politely.

Doing the right thing has cost me big time here and there. I don't care. Simultaneously orgs are not all bad; thats another distortion we can do without.